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specialty of grape culture, and was quite successful. As au ex- 

 hibitor of grapes, always taking the premium offered by the 

 Society for the varieties he exhibited. As a citizen, he was 

 greatly respected, and served his town officially in an able 

 manner. 



David Stiles, of Middleton, long a member of this Society, 

 and one of its Trustees, died at Sodus, N. Y , Aug. 7, 1889, 

 aged 76 years, having been born in Middleton, June 19, 1813. 

 He was a farrier by occupation, and conducted it in a most neat 

 shop, next to his residence, for fifty-four years. His papers 

 on horse-shoeing, and the horse, published in the Society's 

 Transactions, or read before its Institutes, have shown he was a 

 master of his profession, and a great lover of the horse. He 

 was thrifty, saving and forehanded, and a good type of the old- 

 fashioned New England life and character. He was public 

 spirited, and a Deacon and earnest supporter of the Congrega- 

 tional Church, of which he had been a member since 1832. He 

 was a Justice of the Peace, and local agent of the Society for 

 the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and was generally inter- 

 ested in genealogical, historical and agricultural matters. He 

 married Rebecca Periy, of Danvers, by whom he had five chil- 

 dren, and with whom he celebrated their golden wedding, April 

 21, 1886. She died nine months after. 



Loring B. Rea, of Miles City, Montana, died in 1889, about 

 40 years of age. He was a very enterprising farmer in North 

 Andover, where he was born, and joined the Society about 

 twenty years ago. He moved West from North Andover, in 

 1885, that he might carry on farming and stock raising on a 

 more extensive scale, which he made successful. While a resi- 

 dent of Montana, he served in its Legislature. 



John Noyes Kent, of Newbury, a member of this Society 

 since 1856, was born Feb. 21, 1809, and died March 17, 1889, 

 aged 80 years and 24 days. 



He was a descendant of Richard Kent, who came from the 



